Overview
Indicated — Graney West is recorded as Mill — unclassified at Graney West. It preserves evidence of a work place that turned water, hand or other power into useful grinding or making. The source record also describes the surviving evidence; its details are kept below.
Who lived here and when
The record identifies Indicated — Graney West as Mill — unclassified. It does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.
Homes and daily life
The recorded type points to a work place that turned water, hand or other power into useful grinding or making. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.
What was found
The saved source says: The main structure of the present ruins include a date stone of 1799. The building incorporates the lower ten courses of an earlier mill. Projecting from the end wall at the N are the foundation courses of a still earlier building. Incorporated into the walls are three portions of moulding, probably from former castle (KD040-042----) or nunnery (KD040-015----). Date of upload: 8 September 2016
Why it ended
The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.
Why it mattered
Indicated — Graney West fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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